Trends in Systems Architecture and the HANA Platform
This post is a follow on to the video on Systems Architecture here (video). I’ll describe how HANA, the Platform not the Database, is cutting fat from the landscape. If you have not seen the video...
View ArticleHadoop and Company Financial Performance
I have posted several times about the impact of the Hadoop eco-system on a several companies (here, here, here, for example). The topic cam up in a tweet thread a few weeks back… which prompts this...
View ArticleHadoop and ETL
My last post (here) blathered about the effect that Hadoop must have on database vendor profits. An associate wrote me with the reminder that Hadoop is also impacting revenues and profits of ETL...
View ArticleA Short DW DBMS Market History: HANA, Oracle, DB2, Netezza, Teradata, &...
Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years ago Netezza shook up the DW DBMS market with a parallel database machine that could...
View ArticleA Story about Teradata, Advanced Architectures, and Distributed Applications
Here is a short story about distributed versus monolithic application design… Around 1999 Dan Holle and I started thinking about how to better deploy applications that used distributed computing. To be...
View ArticleModernizing IT P1
Hiya, My apologies for neglecting this blog… The SSA CIO job takes time. I have several database-specific blogs drafted that I hope to get to over the holidays… In the meantime here is a CIOish post on...
View ArticleRefactoring Databases P1: Defining Some Terms
We are in the middle of several agile projects at the SSA… so I’ll start the year by sharing some related issues and solutions we are considering… I am going to try to suggest some ideas about...
View ArticleRefactoring Databases P2: Cheating a Little
In this post I am going to suggest doing a little design a little upfront and violating the purity of agility in the process. I think that you will see the sense. To be fair, I do not think that what I...
View ArticleRefactoring Databases P2.5: Scoping the Cheats
One of the side-effects of the little cheat posted here is that, if we are going to design early we have to decide what we will design early… and this question has two complications. First, we have to...
View ArticleRefactoring Databases P2.75: REST and ORB Thoughts
I’m riffing on database design and modeling in an agile methodology. In the previous post here I suggested that we might cheat a little and design database schemas 2-4 weeks in advance of their use…...
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